Category: Sexism

Family Parenting Feminism Misogyny Sexism Toxic Masculinity

How every parent can help get rid of toxic masculinity

sudshr47 March 16, 2019

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Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2019 and we have the entire internet to contend with.

Youth sports are often pure chaos. I’m the head coach of two girls’ basketball teams and I’ve seen my share of wild behavior. There are coaches cursing at referees like the NBA championship is on the line, and parents who think their 5-year-old is headed for a full basketball scholarship at Stanford just because she can dribble a ball without falling down. But one thing I witnessed a couple of years ago really shocked me.  Read more…

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Hollywood Mashable Video Sag Awards Screen Actors Guild Award Ceremony Sexism

In a killer SAG Awards monologue, host Megan Mullally goes after ageism and sexism in Hollywood

sudshr47 January 28, 2019

In the 25th SAG Awards ceremony, host Megan Mullally opened the night by jokingly criticizing the entertainment industry for being sexist and ageist. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Sag Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award Ceremony, Hollywood, and…

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Culture Sexism Soccer Web Culture Women

Ada Hegerberg becomes first woman to win the Ballon D’Or, gets asked if she can twerk

sudshr47 December 4, 2018

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When Norwegian footballer Ada Hegerberg became the first woman to win the Ballon D’Or, she likely wasn’t expecting to get asked about her dancing prowess.  

Not only are we still living in an age where women are having “firsts,” we’re also still living in an era where men think it’s cool to ask women if they know how to twerk just as they’re accepting a historic award. 

After Hegerberg delivered a speech with an empowering message to young girls, French DJ Martin Solveig decided it’d be a great idea to ask her — after she’d literally just been named the best female footballer in the world — “est-ce que tu sais twerker?“, which means: “Do you know how to twerk?” Read more…

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Artificial Intelligence Big Tech Companies Gender Bias Sexism Tech

Google got rid of ‘Smart Compose’ pronouns because humans are sexist

sudshr47 November 28, 2018

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Unlike a lot of email signatures these days, Gmail doesn’t specify its preferred pronoun.

To avoid perpetuating gender bias, Gmail stopped its “Smart Compose” text prediction feature — which provides likely ends of sentences and other phrases for Gmail users while composing emails — from suggesting pronouns, Reuters reported Tuesday. 

Google told Mashable that Smart Compose launched in May with that bias-averting policy already in place. However, Gmail product manager Paul Lambert only recently revealed this intentional move in interviews with Reuters.  Read more…

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Double Standard Mashable Video Serena Williams Sexism Us Open

Tennis has an equality problem. What happened with Serena Williams is a fraction of what that feels like.

sudshr47 September 10, 2018

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Tennis star Serena Williams accused the U.S. Open final umpire, Carlos Ramos, of sexism after she was penalized for calling him a “liar” and a “thief.” Williams lost the match in straight sets to 20-year-old Naomi Osaka.

Williams said the incident was a case in point of the glaring double standards according to which male and female tennis players are judged.  Read more…

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Entertainment Gaming League Of Legends Riot Games Sexism

Riot Games is finally ready to explain how it’s going to stamp out a ‘culture of sexism’

sudshr47 August 29, 2018

League of Legends developer Riot Games wants to share what it’s learned over the past month.
The studio came under fire after Kotaku’s Cecilia D’Anastasio delivered an investigative report on Aug. 7 that exposed what the story referred to as a “cultu…

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Entertainment Gaming League Of Legends Riot Games Sexism

‘League of Legends’ developers accused of fostering ‘culture of sexism’

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

League of Legends developer Riot Games has been accused of fostering a culture of sexism, Kotaku detailed in a lengthy report Tuesday.
Kotaku spoke to nearly 30 current and former employees at Riot Games to paint a picture of the kinds of things that…

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